A call to an anti-Islamophobia rally this Sunday in Paris-Liberation

A call for gathering « Against Islamophobia » was launched for Sunday, April 27, eighteen hours in Paris on social networks After the murder of a faithful Friday in a Gard mosquean a priori premeditated crime after which the murderer filmed his victim by insulting « Allah ».

The rally planned Place de la République will be punctuated by a minute of silence in memory of the victim, a young man in his twenties. The call is notably relayed by several figures of LFI such as Éric Coquerel or Rima Hassan or the Patroness of the Greens, Marine Tondelier.

Friday, the suspect still on the run had tens of stab wounds to a young man praying, in the mosque of the small Gardoise commune of the Grand-Combe. Then he had filmed his dying victim with his mobile phone, throwing sentences like: « Your allah shitty! » Fucked. « 

Reacting to this drama, François Bayrou denounced on Saturday a « Islamophobic ignominy ». “We are with the relatives of the victim, with the believers so shocked. State’s means are mobilized so that the assassin is seized and punished ”added the Prime Minister on a social network.

The French Council for Muslim worship (CFCM), ex-representation of Islam in France, said « Horrified » by this « Anti-Muslim terrorist attack » and calls Muslims from France to « Extreme vigilance »according to a press release.

The CFCM, which castigates « The dramatic consequences of trivialization and media coverage of anti-Muslim hatred »recommends that the faithful not be alone or isolated in mosques.

He also calls the public authorities « To immediately trigger a reinforced national protection plan for Muslim places of worship ».